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gymnastics

vr.tr.gymnastics · ACT.ACT

Let an agent explain gymnastics and its disciplines and apparatus, describe training, judging and competition, relay safety and safeguarding guidance, and describe history and governance with attribution.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain gymnastics and its disciplines and apparatus, describe training, judging and competition, relay safety and safeguarding guidance, and describe history and governance with attribution.

A group of sports involving exercises requiring strength, flexibility, balance, agility and coordination, including artistic gymnastics on apparatus such as floor, vault, bars, beam, rings and pommel horse, rhythmic gymnastics with hand apparatus, trampoline, acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics, and related disciplines such as wheel gymnastics, tumbling, parkour and freerunning, and historical rope-dancing; gymnastics is an Olympic sport governed by international and national federations and practised from recreational to elite levels.

What it is for: Sports of strength, balance and agility.

It can be explain disciplines and apparatus; describe training and judging; relay safety guidance; describe history and governance.

Distinguishing features

Apparatus

Judged scoring

Early specialisation

Multiple disciplines

What it looks like

Athletes performing on apparatus, mats and trampolines.

How it is recognised

Exercises of strength, flexibility and balance

Artistic, rhythmic, trampoline, acrobatic, aerobic

Diving and figure skating share acrobatic elements but are separate sports; dance is not judged as sport

Related models

is a kind of - category

sport

is related to - another Olympic sport

judo

is related to - the body in movement

limb

is related to - gymnastics training

training

In practice

Families and kinds

artistic gymnastics

rhythmic gymnastics

trampoline and tumbling

acrobatic and aerobic gymnastics

related disciplines such as parkour and wheel gymnastics

Standards and regulation

International federation codes of points

Safeguarding and athlete welfare rules

Equipment safety standards

Failure modes and hazards

Injury from falls and overuse

Abuse and safeguarding failures in the sport

Confusing disciplines

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What gymnastics is.

Sport.

Disciplines

Disciplines and apparatus.

Disciplines

Disciplines.

  1. What are the disciplines of gymnastics, and what apparatus and elements does each use? definition
  2. Which discipline is meant? boundary

Judging

Judging.

Judging

Judging.

  1. How are routines scored under codes of points for difficulty and execution? provenance
  2. Is the scoring information current? boundary
Practise Training and safety.

Practice.

Training

Training.

Training

Training.

  1. How do gymnasts train from recreational to elite levels, and how is progression structured? provenance
  2. Which entry fits gymnastics coaching? action

Safety

Safety and welfare.

Safety

Safety.

  1. What safety, injury prevention and safeguarding guidance do federations and welfare bodies provide? provenance
  2. Is a safeguarding concern present that needs reporting to authorities? boundary
Compete Competition and governance.

Attribution.

Competition

Competitions.

Competition

Competition.

  1. How are Olympic, world and continental competitions organised, and who are notable gymnasts? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific competition? action

Governance

Governance and reform.

Governance

Governance.

  1. What debates about athlete welfare, abuse and reform have shaped gymnastics governance, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did gymnastics develop from ancient exercise and nineteenth-century systems to modern sport? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How is gymnastics taught in schools and clubs? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each discipline be a separate entry?
  • How should federations be linked?
  • How should safeguarding resources be linked?